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General => The Stay Safe Board => Topic started by: louisa maud on Monday 13 March 23 08:55 GMT (UK)
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Good morning folks
Was a bright morning with strong sun but it has clouded over, very breezy, a good washing day
Haven't got much to say this morning, after 2 negative tests I assume I haven't got covid although I have the same symptoms, must be a bad cold or a mini flu.
Liked the little cook, hope the results were edible but I know in the past we have to eat what the children have cooked, smile and say how nice it is, mind you have my eyes on what is happening
Hope everyone is feeling chipper today
LM
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Where is everyone today?
LM
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Late one again for me LM, do hope those symptoms abate soon if you're feeling poorly with it. Not long since you had the covid virus if I recall just after your birthday so perhaps some immunity, we've sort of become suspect of symptoms and if the tests will let us know.
Dentist this morning to have crown fitted as per appointment, offered me a cancellation last week as it was ready but clashed with 2nd of 2 funerals. If I had taken that offer I would have had to go in today anyway as broke the temporary crown on tooth below it over the weekend ... I'm falling to bits!
Have a good day, lights out for me :)
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Hi LM & Mare,
I'm here .. just doing some quick look ups for someone on here but will post properly soon.
LM I do hope you feel better soon. Maybe you might be having physical effects arising from current stress. :-\
Goodnight Mare, sleep well.😴
Very breezy day here, so I'm hoping my washing on line will be dry when I get back.
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Hello all I'm in the middle of solving a mystery that has stumped various people with an Agnes Mary Price at top of their tree
The solution has appeared in a non DNA match
Her " grandchildren " do not DNA match her full sisters grandchildren but match her step daughters descendants
Only logical explanation despite birth certificate is that the child registered as hers
Was actually her 15 year old step daughters
I'm waiting with baited breath for the non DNA match to respond
It's so satisfying when a hunch turns out to be right .
Rainy weather so staying in .
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Hello again all
Quite a nice day , sunny but blowy, good for the washing
I had 2 negatives , so I can only assume I have had a bad cold or a mini flu type, I am not going to test again but I do feel so much better today, thank you .
Mare, you are right, I had the proper covid last November after my birthday, what I have had over the last few days was very similar, so onwards and upwards as they say.
Rather boring but our council have changed the refuse collections, better idea I think for, hopefully, the coming summer, we are allowed to put food in our brown compost bins along with garden waste, my food was always wrapped in paper, no dirty bins for me, now we are told to put food wastage and peelings in the green everyday bin, the brown bin was always the last to be collected, sometimes not for a few weeks, people worried about flies and maggots when we used the brown bin during last year's heat, much more sensible in my opinion, I have a very mini sort of compost thing going on but not a place for a proper composter., well done my council
Mare, dentist, well I am a very nervous patient, years ago I had fillings and had a sedative injection, then my female dentist moved on but I found her, she helped me to overcome my fear for something like 30 plus years, she has stupidly retired so the group that has taken over is not as good, I am an NHS patient and one dentist tried to talk me into having a covering on a tooth, £700 , it won't last he said, how daft is that, wouldn't mind paying if it were to last, so I might have to find a new one.
Bridigmac, that sounds interesting
Take care
LM
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Just catching up re the weekend.
I went to the ‘Celebration of Life’ of our recently passed Elder (CP) on Saturday. I didn’t know what to expect but it was very positive and uplifting and I thought this was much better than the conventional funerals I am more familiar with.
The Church was packed. There was no coffin. Apparently, the cremation had taken place early that morning with just his close family present. The songs we sang were very joyful and various people got up on stage to give tributes. There were funny stories (and much laughter), and moving words. When his daughter spoke, she laughed as she related her happy memories but at times she got choked up with emotion and I felt my eyes brimming too. I thought it was a marvellous send off. So many having turned up to pay their last respects and so much honour and respect accorded to him in the tributes. It was lovely and totally unrushed. Well, it was no more than he deserved as he had served us all unstintingly over the years and was always so kind to all.
Afterwards we all went into the Church hall where huge banquet and refreshments were laid on. There was lots of socialising and chatter.
Later on I had to dash off as I was visiting son and family. My 5 year old Grandson was dressed up as a little policeman when I got there and he had a little note book. He wanted me to pretend I was a robber and he chased me round before taking me to ‘jail’ and then he wanted me to escape and he gave chase again and I was rearrested. He had wanted to draw a moustache and beard on my face and I let him but I said remind me to wash this off as I don’t want people laughing at me on the bus going home later. He did remind me before I left. After a few ‘arrests’ he said he would let me out of jail if I said I was sorry and would never do it again. So I said “I’m very sorry, I promise never to rob any more houses ever again”. And then he turned an imaginary lock and I was able to join Son and DiL for a cup of coffee. ;D
Mind when I got on the bus, there was a man seated whose face was painted like a skeleton! I kid you not. So perhaps I would not have stood out all that much after all if I had forgotton to clean the moustache and beard off.
SiL has been making me feel very jealous as she has been sending photos of her holiday in NZ and in every one she is wearing a T-shirt! I bet she will wish she was still over there when she gets back! :P
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RTL
What an Imagination your grandson has, keystone cops come to mind, you would have been good company had you not washed the evidence away, you made me laugh.
You're elders service sounds very nice and what he deserved, I quite like the idea of a cremation before the service , his family must have felt so proud that so many turned up to support them.
I have been speaking today to a friend who was telling me one of our parishioners has booked a " pure creamation" I did know this and had kept it to myself but we are all amazed, before anyone comes on to challenge me I will add, it is entirely a person's choice as is anyone else's but a regular churchgoers it seems strange, it might be her daughter who lives abroad who will come over later to a memorial service, to me the committal is very important, but each of us is different.
Yes, NZ is really an interesting place, my granddaughter is in Thailand and is complaining it is freezing cold, 24 degrees, we don't often get 24 degrees here, do we?, well, her parents will have to meet her with a big coat and a blanket in the back of their car
Take care
LM
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Morning all
I lost track of the fact that it was a new week and therefore a new thread. It's sunny here this morning but still chilly. Mini daffodils are finally through, but the big ones are still in bud form.
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After a really nice day yesterday it is pouring with rain this morning, my friend mowed her lawn yesterday but i wasn't really up to it, shame as if has to look scruffy till it dries out .
As predicted I suppose my husband has caught whatever I have had, 2 negatives as I said before, he will test but I think it is a heavy cold or a mini flu.
Not a lot going on, got to concentrate on the paperwork for my accident, how do I know what speed I was doing going around a roundabout to the first exit but I do know the other driver was doing a reckless speed.
Hope everyone who is feeling down suffering from Covid is now what I call, on the up and up.
Take care
LM
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Good to hear you're getting better Annette and LM.
Lovely pics of the children.
I cut my back lawn on Sunday, looks much better. I'd done the front one previously. Too cold for any gardening today but the first green bin collection is due tomorrow, mine is full of trimmings from shrubs and dead stuff. Crocuses and hyacinths in flower but only a couple of daffs so far, I suppose the different varieties come out at different times.
This morning I rang the doctor's surgery to try and make an appointment for a well woman checkup, the nurse had told me about a year ago that I'd be able to do so in a year. Apparently they're not doing them any more. I'm a great believer in preventative medicine so was disappointed to hear that. I realise that the NHS is under a lot of pressure but it seems a shame that we can't do something about avoiding potential future problems.
On a more positive note, I phoned this afternoon to renegotiate a broadband contract, mine expired about four years ago and as they're all about to bump up prices again it spurred me on to do something about it. I got £20 per month off my bill. :D
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I am not getting notifications of new posts.
Sorry if I seem disinterested , but I only find out in unread posts.
Glad some improvement for Annette and L.M.
My it hen scales need a new battery,I was hanging washing out when the daughter of my lovely neighbour ( who is still in hospital) came from the hose to the bins.
I spoke and asked how her Mum was,- no change- .
I said I was off to get new battery and would her a card fir her Mum.
She said there were some good scales in her Mum’s kitchen I could have .
Lovely Salter scales ,I thanked her and said how I would treasure them ,we got a bit upset , but her mum is warm ,comfy and not alone so we felt it was better where she was.
I am looking forward to visiting when possible.
Had cheese and onion pie and cauliflower with cheese sauce.
I remembered an old tip and put a squeeze of lemon juice in with the cauli ,it was really nice not such a strong flavour .
Three changes of weather today ,bright early morning ,snow later ,torrential rain and then bright sunshine late afternoon.
My kitchen blind is being a pain, the shop that put them in for me have a stall on Bury Market , market day tomorrow so it is only narrow,one half of a pair at the French Window, so if I take it they might loosen it for me.
No news really, son not negative yet, but not going anywhere.
Well ,watching naughty dogs , Graeme Hall is amazing ,he sorts things out seemingly very quickly.
Time for a cuppa after the dog programme ,then a bath ( clean bedding .)
Cheerio and look after yourselves,thanks forthe news and photographs and hope things end well for those with worries.
Viktoria.
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Crumbs Roobarb your garden scheme starts early! Ours doesn't start until April and I haven't thought about grass cutting yet! Plus the grass is wet from hailstones and snow. I'll need to scarily first. The bin is in the garage currently where it lives for the winter and I've been putting the pruning and tidying up in there , however I need to get out and do more, once the weather decides to stay dry for more than 20 minutes at a time. We have loads of weeds in the borders too. I'm looking forward to tidying it all up.
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Having just ad a pacemaker fitted yesterday, I'm looking forward to getting enough energy to actually DO some gardening soon!
TY
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Well son seems to have had a relapse—- feels really rough this morning after a bad night.He was feeling much better ,but being a man has probably stopped all the paracetamols and cough medicine !
I am not asking ,it is up to him!
I need to go to the market today, but sleet and snow again this morning .
However there is not much walking about in the cold ,mostly under cover .
The market is accessed directly off the bus through a tunnel under the road then through the market hall to the shopping mall.
I must make a list or I will surely forget something.
Big birds in the garden this morning ,Magpies and some rooks I think .
Dustbin not emotird last week ,special collection yesterday but not all, including mine ,emptied.
The binmen decant from one bin to another,so the street is now littered with plastic waste from the collection ,why it is not picked up by those who drop it,
ie, the bin men , I do not know!
Well low battery so must hie me hence!
Cheerio folks, look after yourselves ,I intend to -that includes you TY ,hope it makes you feel a good deal better.
Viktoria.
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Well done TY, just in time for spring, you will feel a new person..
It really is annoying when the dustman decant one bin into another and refuse goes flying about, my neighbour and I share a green bin, I often tell her on collection days to put her plastic bag into mine, or vica verca, we use bags to keep them clean.
Oh dear Viktoria, so sorry to hear your son is not so good, seems to be a long time, we had it for 11 days till we got negative last year.
Noticed as I popped to the little shop that the council was cutting the grass verge, surprising as we had a lot of rain yesterday, I am not in a fit state to mow my lawn yet, perhaps a couple of days, anyway it is to cold today.
Am on the lookout for a replacement car just in case it doesn't go my way, it should but it might be the cost involved, always had one made in Dagenham as my husband was a senior engineer in the same company but we only ever had a brand new car once, a Mondeo, it just died on us recently and seems as if it has to go where faithful cars go to at the end of their life, very low mileage for a W reg car mine is a Fusion and it just suits me fine as it is a bit higher, decisions decisions.
Keep warm and safe
LM
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TY glad to hear you’ve had your procedure done. Hope you feel much better than you have been feeling.
LM if the need arises, can you still buy recent ish second hand fusions, or did they stop making them too long ago? I have a fiesta and they’re stopping making them very shortly .
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Yes, Fusions ceased I would say about 2015 but I think they still sold them in America, mine is an 09 reg and very low mileage, had it since it was 2 years when there was about 3000 on the clock, not sure what we are going to do as yet, I do not want a new one, when we both feel better we will go and have a look
LM
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Morning all
What a performance to get a Drs appt, yesterday was 20 in the queue, 27 mins on the phone, no appts for yesterday, so I left home early today and waited outside the surgery, first in the queue, well that paid off, got an appt with the Dr of my choice a bit later, it is a dull damp day, not quite so cold but I didn't have to wait to long.
Viktoria, hope your son feels better today and everyone else who feels under the weather, roll on the warmer weather
Take care, enjoy your day
LM
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LM you did better than me in the Drs appt queue last week. started off a No 10, at about 5.00, after 1hour was no 1, hung on for another hour and a quarter - then it abruptly went off!
What a service - not.
TY
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This morning I was at the Drs by 07.45, first in the queue, got a Dr I preferred and an appt at 10.40, it isn't easy now to see or speak to a Dr, we just have to go with the flow as I call it
LM
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I am pleased for youLM.
Hope things improve ,you have a lot to contend with just now.
You also T.Y. Hope you too feel better.
Viktoria.
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Well Viktoria, I am here still to tell the tale as it were.
Hope you are OK
LM
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Thankyou, L.M.
Did anyone see “ The Piano” yesterday evening?
The little girl who is blind and learns the pieces by putting her fingers on her teacher’s fingers and remembers all the fingering ,it is astounding .
She fluffed a tiny bit but recovered very quickly .
I must correct my error in a previous post about this I put Ylang Ylang for Lang Lang , the former is a posh perfume I think !
Well Lucy has won, no one can understand how she does it.
Much milder today, rainy but quite a dark sky.
Some very interesting birdsong that I have not heard before ,in the garden.
Well must check on tea, look after yourselves folks .
Cheerio.
Viktoria.
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Just got an email from my daughter, they have just won for the umpteenth time :-
Dealer of the Year for customer satisfaction and the award for Premium Selection Bikes ,( I have no idea what that is!)
So that is really good news , yet BMW never let up on her, other women dealership owners say the same ,perhaps it is a “ German thing” —-
Huis,kinder,kuchen —-excuse my German, you would think I ought to get it correct as I am using it to describe an attitude prevalent in a cut throat business dominated by men.
Sorry chaps I know you are not all the same.
Viktoria.
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Well done your daughter Viktoria
Well, don't know what anyone thinks about this, you all know I have a twin brother and you all know I had an accident recently, I had a message from my twin brother , he has also written his car off in an accident a few days after my accident, how strange is that?, we live 250 miles from each other, once again no injuries, thank God, his pride might have taken a bit of a jolt though
Hope everyone is feeling good today, weather miserable.
LM
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How strange!
Now that is taking the link between twins a but far!
Viktoria.
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It is really is strange, mine on 3rd and his on 5th, his was a write off and was paid out in 2 days, and, it was his fault, unlike mine, 2 weeks and no one has been I contact , find it a bit spooky.
Where is everyone today,?, it is very quiet, not that you are enjoying the sunshine!!, been a miserable day here.
Clocks change soon, we need the weather to go with it to encourage me out to do the gardening, well over due
Take care
LM
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This morning Postman Pat delivered an envelope addressed to both wife and myself. The Local Elections are due in our area this year and this envelope contained two application forms for Postal Votes, one for each of us and with our names printed on from one of the Political parties who will be fighting the election. We have not requested these but I suppose that the Party concerned is trying every which way to garner some extra votes.
What does bother me is the fact that they are using the "official" Council application forms, personalised with our names.
I can understand them sending out letters in the normal manner to make us aware of the potential for using a postal vote if we so desire but to have gone the extra mile or six and personalise the official forms makes me wonder if they have not taken their enthusiasm just a tad too far and overstepped the mark. Any thoughts on the legality of this?
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It seems not impossible that eventually someone would assume which way we would vote!
Easy to bamboozle a daftie like me.
Some forms nowadays look official but really are not,they are advertising.
Oh why not just leave things alone.
At least until I have popped my clogs!
Viktoria.( I think)
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Dropping in briefly to say ...
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY
Different date for us and not Mothering Sunday
We have to wait until May
Enjoy ... and remember our own mums too in some way
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Love the diary thread.
Remembering my mom Winnie 1923-2006 on Mothers Day.
Off out for Mothers Day lunch later with my daughter and her family.
Have a lovely day everyone.
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Thankyou you from me Mare , I am just up ,opened card from daughter and son in law, first son will make a visit this afternoon, ,second son who is here for the time being is still asleep, not yet over Covid so first son won’t come
in .He has been unwell for some time but things are at last being sorted out .
A funny day it will be.
Mothering Sunday really. Always the fourth Sunday in Lent., the lead up to Easter.
It is a Religious day here really but Americans call it Mothers’ Day,
Whatever it is a nice gesture to Mothers.
In days of yore—— servant girls were as far as possible allowed home to see their mothers, taking a cake ,a fruit cake decorated with marzipan ,called a Simnel cake.
Symbolising the “ Mother Church “ really.
The price of flowers has shot up this weekend ,because of Mothering Sunday.
Well must get on,am trying to get to Church , I am so used to being alone I find it difficult to have someone here with me.
It will all work out .
An easy evening meal, I got a side of salmon ,but it will only be we two ,other son not coming in, so half frozen, just new potatoes,new. Peas and green beans and Hollandaise sauce..A lemon drizzle cake with cream .
I will have something of my mother’s on the table today ,she died in 1957,aged 61. I have flowers for her and got a little plant for the garden,Ceanothus ,a climbing one.
Hope everyone has a good day , we are so lucky to live where we do, not Russia or Ukraine.
Cheerio Viktoria.
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Happy Mothering Sunday to all you mothers, have a lovely day ⚘
My mother wasn't a churchgoers but she always referred to Mothering Sunday rather than Mothers' Day so I always made a point of buying her a card with that particular greeting.
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Happy mothering Sunday to all, mothering means caring so we don't have to be a mum to share mothering Sunday
LM
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Have always been included in Mothering Sunday celebrations by my niece and nephew as I am also their god-mother.
Annette
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As an honourary auntie to the two children of my childhood best friend, - neither of us had any siblings - I always try to contact with them on Mothering Sunday, as I know how much they still miss her.
TY
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That is nice Annette and TY.
The vicar made us all laugh today, he said he had the best mother in the world because he was " chosen" when he asked his mother why she chose him the reply was " you was the ugliest baby " , apparently he had a skin complaint at birth, also it was a very good sermon, he is quite good looking, she did a good job.
LM
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Aaaaaw!
That is a nice way to explain to adopted children ,that they were chosen .
Well Grandson- Flash Harry’s daddy phoned ,a nice long chat.
It is F,H’s best friend’s B/day soon and F.H wants to take him camping in the camper van for a present.
Second son tested negative this morning so number one son and wife can come in.
A rose bush and a book about the area in which I used to live ie, South Shropshire .
Card from second son but he has not been out to buy anything ,no matter.
Sister phoned as son came so I must phone her back tomorrow,her daughter and family there for tea today.
Cake turned out well, gave half to first son .
Well vegetables to prepare, not much to do ,just watching Man U and Fulham match. No score as yet.
Hope everyone has a nice afternoon ,mother or not .
Cheerio.Viktoria.
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Afternoon all
LM sorry to hear about your brother but glad he was ok.
I've been away for a few days looking after one of the grandsons as the family down there had to go away to Ireland for a funeral. Have driven back today so I had the benefit of a short Mother's Day with him and his mum before I headed home. Two year olds give the best cuddles and ' I love you gandma ' is priceless.
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I remember a few years go i was coming out of a local shop, heard "nanny, nanny " ( I wanted to be called granma) anyway I turned round and if was my 2 ish year old grandaughter running up to me with her arms open, someone I knew saw it and commented it was beautiful, yes, they certainly give the best hugs, she is now 23 and backpacking in Asia, it is something I have never forgotten
LM